Thursday, May 27, 2010

We are now ready to get back to the business of printmaking - almost. My last contribution to the skin show is a handmade paper piece. The skins, aka peelings, from onions, carrots and broccoli have been boiled beyond recognition with a little caustic agent and at the end of the process, a buffering agent to make it Ph neutral. Only a few sheets were made and one was carefully draped over my hand to form somewhat of a casting - albeit a speed record in the casting process. The color was not anticipated, but is very pleasant and works well with the title: Skin.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Life just keeps interjecting and taking more time than I am willing to devote. The latest development is bursitis in the left hip. This is probably because I've been walking, sitting, and moving in unnatural ways because my blooming knee hurts like hell. So, that is my excuse for not doing much art work. And then, the deadline for the Skin show at North Bank Gallery decided to be closer than I could imagine and I got to work on a couple of quirky ideas. I figured others would do the tatoos, body painting, hanging by hooks in the back from the gallery ceiling, etc. So, I would do something from the opposite direction. The closest I could come to the opposite direction was nursery rhymes/lullabyes, hence Bye Baby Bunting - Daddy's gone a-hunting, he will bring a rabbit skin to wrap a baby bunting in. And, New Summer Colors - thinking if we could just get babies to come in all colors, not just the traditional ones, maybe we could get over racial prejudices. Probably not. Someone would think up a reason for hating my lime green babies. Or, Heaven Forbid! The mauve ones, now that sounds dangerous. One more piece is in the works, but it is still drying.

Bare Bones Art

About Me

Name: Sharri LaPierre
Gender: Female
Location: Vancouver, WA USA
Education: BA Studio Art
University of CA, Irvine CA
I’m a mother and a grand
mother and an absolutely great aunt. I have 2 grown children who turned out to be wonderful friends and excellent role models. One of them has blessed me with two grand-daughters and the other with two grand dogs. I live on 5 acres north of Vancouver where I happily work in my studio almost every day.

A Wee Bit o' Personal History

My birth name is Bowens, the Anglicized version of the original Gaelic, Bones. Hence, the connection in Rag & Bone. In days of yore the junk man used to go around with his cart and collect rags and bones and then take the rags to the paper maker and the bones to the smithy to be turned into charcoal for making pigment. Paper + ink + Bones = Printmaker.

The Circus Animals Desertion

Now that my ladders gone,I must lie downWhere all the ladders startIn the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.